Car door and brake control device



c.-c. FARMER. CAR'DOOR AND BRAKE. CONTROL DEVICE. APPLICATKONIHLED MAR. 26. I920.

1,408,874. V I Puma Mar. 7,1922.

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CLYDE C. FARMEB', OF EDGEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE WESTING- HOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY, OF TION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

WILMERDING, PENNSYLVANIA, a 'oonroRA CAR DOOR AND BRAKE CONTROL DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 26, 1920. Serial No. 368,910.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, CLY E C. FARMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edgewood, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car-Door and Brake-Control Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car brake and door controlling devices, and more particularly adapted for safety car control equipments. v

It has heretofore been proposed to provide a safety car control equipment in which the release of the controlling handle causes an emergency application of the brakes.

It is sometimes necessary for the car operator to leave the car, as, for example, when the car is run into a car barn and in such cases it is not necessary for safety to have the brakes applied in emergency nor is it desirable, particularly as it is usual to provide means for sanding the track when an emergency application of the brakes is made and since this would result in a waste of. sand andcompressed air.

It is, however, desirable that the operator apply the brakes to some extent, as by a straight air application, before he leaves the car. 7 r

One object of my invention is to provide means for preventing the release of the handle from causing an emergencyapplication of the brakes when the operator leaves the car. I

Another object of my invention is to provide means for preventing an emergency application of the brakes upon release of the controlling handle, the release of the handle being then adapted to cause a service application of the brakes.

Another object of my invention is to provide means for permitting the operator to open and close the car doors if he desires to vice, showing the leave the car and without causing an emer gency application of the brakes.

In the accompanying drawing; Fig. l is a plan view, partly in section, of a brake valve device embodying my invention; Fig. 2 an elevational view. partly in section, on line 22 of Fig.

operating handle in its normal operating plane; Fig. 3 a similar view, showing the operating handle in its 1, of the brake valve do other operating plane; and F igflt a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing, the reference numeral 1 indicates the usual valve body of a brake valve device and within the valve body is the usual rotary valve (not shown) having posi tions for controlling the car brakes and the doors. f

The stem 2 for operating the rotary valve is provided with a handle 3 which is'mounted in a handle guard 4, having a vertical opening 5, through which the handle may be removed from the stem 2. i

Applied to the valve body 1 is a valve casing 6, containing a double beat valve 7 adapt ed to be seated normally in one position by a coil spring 8.

A pipe 9 is connected to the pipewhich leads to the usual door engine (not shown) and through which fluid under pressure is supplied to the door engine for effecting the closing of the ,car door, and the pipe 10 is connected to a passage in the brake valve device, leading to the seat of the rotary valve,

the double check valve 7 to pipe 9 and the 7 door engine. V v

In addition to the usual operating plane, the handle guard 4 is constructed so as to permit the operation of thehandle 3 inan upper plane, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing, in which a finger 11, projecting from the handle 3 is so positioned as to engage the stem 12 of the double beat valve 7. V

The brake valve device may be provided with operating positions indicated in Fig. l of the drawings, namely, release, lap, handle oif, service application with doors closed, service application with doors opened, and emergency application position.

Means are provided for throwing the brake valve handle to emergency application position upon release of the handle, which may comprisea ring 13 having gearteeth and loosely mounted on the valve stem 2. An arm let, pivotally mounted on an extension of the valve body 1, is provided with gear teeth adapted to mesh with the gear teeth of the ring 13 and at an intermediate point, a piston rod 15 is connected to said arm. a

A piston 16, mounted in a'cylinder 17, is connected to piston rod 15 and is acted upon off position.

i the latch 20. .Then upon by a spring 18 which tends to move the arm 14:, so as to rotate the ring 13. Said ringis provided witha lug 19, adapted to engage the handle 3 and move same when the ring is rotated, so that, upon release of the handle, the same will be shifted to emergencyapplication position by the action of the spring 18. r

n order to prevent the removal of the brake valve handle in the off position unless a service application of the brakes is first made, a locking vdevice may be provided, comprising a pivotally mounted latch member 20, adapted to normally engage in an annular notch 24, out in the hub of the handle. The latch member 20 is pivotally connectedto a piston 21-which is normally maintained iuthe locking position by a spring 22. The opposite side of the piston 21 is connected to apipe 23 which is adapted to be suppliedwith fluid under pressure when a straight air application of the brakes ismade. Fluid under pressur supplied to the piston 21 causes the movement of said piston, against the pressure of spring 22, so as to shift the latch 20, and thereby permit the handle to'be removed or lifted in the handle In operation, if the operator desires to re move thebrake valve handle for the purpose of going to the other end otthe car, or any other purpose, he must first make a service application of the brakes, inorder to release movement of the handle to the handle off position the handle may be removed If the operator'wishes to leave the car, as: when the car is run into car barn, he must first move the to service application position, in order to release the latch 20, and then move the handle to, the, handle off position and lift same to theadditional operating plane,'as "shown in Fig. 8 of the drawing.

' In this operating plane, upon release of the handle, the same will b moved by the service doors closed action of the spring 18, but the movement is limited by [the engagement of the handle with a stop25gformed in the handle guard 4, so that the handle will only'move to the position. In moving to this position, the double beat valve 7 is operatedby the finger 11, so as *to vent fluid under pressure from the pipe 9. *As the pipe 9 leads to the door closing side of the door engine, the fluid pressure which acts to hold the cardoors closed is released, and the cardoor engine is balanced, so that the operator can manually open the door in order to leave the car, and then close the door upon leaving the car. I

"It will be noted that a serviceapplication of the brakes would be effected and the fluid pressures on'the door engine would be bal- 1 application position,

handle of the brake valve holding a candoor operated by said handle in theadditional position, for, removal, Without first making a service application of the brakes.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to'secure by Let ters Patent, is

l. The combination with a brake valve device having an operating handle, of means normally operativ upon release of the handle for shifting the handleto emergency application position, said handle being manually movable to a position inwhich move ment' of the handle to emergency position is prevented upon release of the handle. 2. The combination with a brake valve device having an operating handle, of means normally operative upon release of the handle for shiftingthe handle to emergency said handle having a normal operating plane and an additional operating plane, and a stop for preventing movement of the handle to emergency position when the handle is in the additional operatingplane. a 3. The combination with a brake valve device having an operating handl provided with a normal operating'plan'e and an additional operating plane,of means operating upon release of the handle in the normal operating plane for moving the handle to emergency application position and a stop for limiting the movement of the handle to service application position'in the additional operating plane.

a. The combinat'on with a" brake valve de vic having anoperatinghandle provided with a normal operating plane and an additional operating plane, of a pipe through which fluid under pressureis supplied for closed and valve means operating plane for venting fluid from said pipe to permit the car door to be manually opened. 3

5. The combination with a brake valve device having an operating handle provided with a normal operating plane and anadditional operating plane, of a pipe" through which fluid under pressure i supplied for holding a car door closed and valve means operated upon movement of said handle to service application position in the additional operating plane forventinsifluid from said pipe to permit the car door to be manually opened. V p 7 6. The combination with a brake "valve device having an operating handle provided with a normaloperating plane and an additional operating plane, of a pipe through holding a car door closed and valve means adapted to be operatedin the normal operating plane and an additional operating plane, of means operated upon release of the handle in the normal operating plane for shifting said handle to effect an em ergency application of the brakes and means for limiting the movement of the handle, upon release in the additional plane, to a position forefi ecting a service application of the brakes. r

7. The combination with a brake valve device having an operating handle adapted to operate in a normal operating plane and an additional operating plane, of means operating upon release of the handle for shift ing said handle to a position for effecting an emergency application of the brakesa pipe through which fluid is supplied for holding a car door closed, valve means operated upon release of the handle in the additional operating plane for venting fluid from said pipe to permit the car door to be manually opened and closed, and a stop for limiting the movement of said handle to a position for effecting a servic application of the brakes.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

CLYDE C. FARMER. 

